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Author : John Odin Howard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Chess
ISBN : HARVARD:HN51YT
Author : Alexander Alekhine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486271048
One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Keres, Reshevsky, others. Included are many of Alekhine's own games, plus candid commentary on fellow masters, rivals.
Author : Jürgen Brustkern,Norbert Wallet
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789493257016
No other chess tournament has such a long and rich history as the annual gathering 'in between the years' at the English seaside resort of Hastings. Countless chess players, professionals, and amateurs alike have celebrated Christmas and welcomed the New Year in Hastings while battling it out on the chessboard. German FM Jürgen Brustkern has been making the annual pilgrimage to Hasting ever since 1977. Together with his compatriot Norbert Wallet, he describes the tournament's fascinating history and portrays forty of the most colourful participants. The stories begin in 1895 when the young American Harry Pillsbury shocked the European chess elite with his victory, and they span 125 years. In this book, you will meet the strongest female players of all time, Vera Menchik, Nona Gaprindashvili, and Judit Polgar. You will get to know the mysterious Sultan Khan and the unorthodox Michael Basman and enjoy anecdotes about Mikhail Tal, Viktor Kortchnoi, and his rival Anatoly Karpov. How many World Champions came to Hastings? How expensive was the Golden Knight trophy that Lajos Portisch won? What was the effect of the British Chess Explosion? This collection of games and stories is enjoyed best in the dark days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, after a stroll on the beach, immersed in the spirit of Hastings. 'Should I trade my Romantic style for the modern way and only hunt for points?', Nicolas Rossolimo is quoted as asking himself. 'No, I won't. I will fight for chess as an art form.'
Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476631691
A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. The growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of books and periodicals aimed at players from beginner to expert. The author combines new information about the early history of the game with advice for researchers into chess history and traces the further development of chess literature well into the 20th century. Topics include today’s leading chess libraries and the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Special attention is given to the columns that appeared in newspapers (national and provincial) and magazines from 1813 onwards. These articles, usually weekly, provide a wealth of information on early chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere. The lengthy first appendix, an A to Z of almost 600 chess columns, constitutes a detailed research aid. Other appendices include corrections and supplements to standard works of reference on chess.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Chess
ISBN : HARVARD:HXKPDS
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Chess
ISBN : PRNC:32101076474350
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Chess
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09207228
Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476601434
This book portrays British chess life in the nineteenth century through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the modern game. From Captain Evans, inventor of the famous gambit, to Isidor Gunsberg, England's first challenger for the world championship, personal narratives are blended with game annotations to reassess players' achievements and character. The author has combined deep reading in primary sources with genealogical research to reveal new facts and correct previous misunderstandings. Major chapters on Howard Staunton and William Steinitz, in particular, highlight the tensions between Englishmen and immigrants, amateurs and professionals. The contrasting long careers of Henry Bird and Joseph Blackburne provide a thread of continuity. The lives of several other important figures in Victorian chess are also presented. More than 160 games (with diagrams), several annotated in detail, and 50 photographs and line drawings are included. Appendices provide career records for all ten; there are extensive notes, a bibliography and indexes.
Author : G. A. Macdonnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Chess
ISBN : BSB:BSB11612010
Author : John Odin Howard Taylor
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296037096
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Nevil Coles,Fred Reinfeld,Israel Albert Horowitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486293554
A collection of fifty games spans more than a century of chess play, from McDonnell v. Labourdonnais in 1834 to Matanovich v. Rossolimo in 1951
Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476640617
Drawing on new research, this first biography of William Steinitz (1836-1900), the first World Chess Champion, covers his early life and career, with a fully-sourced collection of his known games until he left London in 1882. A portrait of mid-Victorian British chess is provided, including a history of the famous Simpson's Divan. Born to a poor Jewish family in Prague, Steinitz studied in Vienna, where his career really began, before moving to London in 1862, bent on conquering the chess world. During the next 20 years, he became its strongest and most innovative player, as well as an influential writer on the game. A foreigner with a quarrelsome nature, he suffered mockery and discrimination from British amateur players and journalists, which eventually drove him to immigrate to America. The final chapters cover his subsequent visits to England and the last three tournaments he played there.
Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786474738
During a career spanning more than 50 years, J.H. Blackburne (1841-1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world's top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other countries, entertaining and teaching amateur players, he astonished his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game without sight of the chessboard. At 21, he set a world record for such exhibitions, competing against 12 club players simultaneously, and he continued to perform "blindfold" into his sixties. This first comprehensive biography of Britain's greatest chess player of the 19th and early 20th centuries presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne's games chronologically, including all his surviving games from serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive endgame play. Blackburne's unusual family and social background are fully explored.
Author : Fabrizio Zavatarelli
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786496907
An enthusiastic verve--"brio" some could say--marked both Ignaz Kolisch's personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Riviere, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). More than 300 specimens of his play are presented--by far the largest collection ever--complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages. Several widespread and long-standing errors are corrected. A work deeply researched among sources in many languages, the book serves also as a record of European chess in the late 1850s through the 1880s.
Author : Will H. Lyons (bookseller, Newport.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Chess
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4Z4E